Jul 3, 2020 · This book is a detailed and authoritative introduction to all aspects of Lua programming written by Lua's chief architect. Programming in Lua provides a solid base to any …

This is the online version of the first edition of the book Programming in Lua, a detailed and authoritative introduction to all aspects of Lua programming written by Lua's chief architect.

Nevertheless, Lua is still the same language; most things that we will see here are valid regardless of how you are using Lua. For a start, we recommend that you use the stand-alone …

To embed Lua into your C or C++ program, you'll need the Lua headers to compile your program and a Lua library to link with it. If you're getting a ready-made Lua package for your platform, …

For detailed technical information on specific topics, see our old series of Lua Technical Notes and the wiki at lua-users.org, specially the tutorial. You may also browse the source code.

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Lua has been designed from scratch to be extended, both through Lua code and through external C code. As a proof of concept, it implements most of its own basic functionality through …

It means that, in Lua, a function is a value with the same rights as conventional values like numbers and strings. Functions can be stored in variables (both global and local) and in …

Lua users typically fall into three broad groups: those that use Lua already embedded in an application program, those that use Lua stand alone, and those that use Lua and C together.

At the same time, a program that uses Lua can register new functions in the Lua environment; such functions are implemented in C (or another language) and can add facilities that cannot …